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# Tribunals and their Boundaries

#### by Mark D F Shirley

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Note: These tribunals differ somewhat from that of `official' ArM sources, and are based upon an Order of Hermes which includes a number of `lesser' Houses, as detailed in History of the Order of Hermes.

With a redefined house structure, emphasis shifts away from France/Germany as the centre of the Order, and thus the Tribunals need to be realigned. Each tribunal has 2 names, the first is its common name, the second is the official name. Note that the system below is based on the civil service of ancient Rome

The officials of a Tribunal are:

- Praeco iudicii Provincinus, the oldest Magus in the Tribunal. The praeco is often assisted by a Consul, who is someone that he chooses.
- Propraetor Quaesitorius, the chief Quaesitor - some Tribunals may share a Propraetor. He is assisted by the other quaesitors in the tribunal; called Aedilis curalis. The Propraetor can appoint vicarii, members of other houses that assist him in his day to dat duties where members of House Guernicus are in short supply. If they assist at Tribunals, these are called Aedilis plebeius
- Tribunus Nuntius, the chief redcap. The person for this post is elected by the other members of House Mercere.
- Tribunus Scriba, a member of House Nicanaetus, who records all events and decisions, which then go into a central library, ready to be sent to all Tribunals in the Order
- Carnifex, the Tribunal's official enforcer. This person is always a member of House Ex Ultores, and is chosen by the propraetor. It is his duty to punish those who willfully disobey the Code. This is often merely grunt work, collecting vis fines, etc., but occasionally he will get to execute trangressors of the Code.

#### Tribunal Map

The Tribunals in 1066 are as follows:

Included with each Tribunal description are the cities from the map in the ArM4 main rulebook that are within its boundaries.

## Aquitanian (Burgundy)Tribunal

Founded: 773AD

Boundaries: Between the Loire and the Garonne; and the Bay of Biscay and the Rhine. Includes the Massif Central.

Covenants:

Cities: Poitiers, Limoges, Lyon, Le Puy, Bordeaux, La Rochelle

## Britannian (Stonehenge)Tribunal

Founded: 817AD

Boundaries: All of England south of Hadrian's Wall, including Wales, Devon and Cornwall and the islands closest to them. The Channel Islands are hypothetically part of this Tribunal, but the covenant there is powerful, and attends meetings of the Lugdunensian Tribunal

Covenants: Cad Gadu (Ex Miscellanea)

Cities: Carlisle, York, Lincoln, Shrewsbury, London, Winchester, Glastonbury

## Carpathia (Transylvanian)Tribunal

Founded: 773AD

Boundaries: Between the Sava and Danube (from where the Sava joins it eastwards) and the western tributary of the Vistula, enclosing the Carpathian Mountains and the Plain of Hungary

Covenants: Coeris (Tremere)

Cities: Bratislava, Budapest, Belgrade, Nish, Esterguin

## Germania Magna (Rhine)Tribunal

Founded: 773AD

Boundaries: All lands bounded by the R. Rhine to the east, the Oder to the west, and the Baltic Sea to the north. The southern-most limit is the Danube.

Covenants: Durenmar (Bonisagus), Irencilla (Merinita), Valnastium (Jerbiton)

Cities: Cologne, Frankfurt, Speyer, Munich, Nurnberg, Passau, Leipzig, Stettin, Lubeck, Magdeburg, Aarhus, Barglum, Ribe, Hamburg, Bremen, Deventer

## Hibernian (Eireann) Tribunal

Founded: 817AD

Boundaries: Ireland and the islands closest to it, including the Isle of Man. Curiously, this Tribunal claims the tiny island of Lundy, in the Bristol Channel.

Covenants:

Cities: Dublin, Waterford, Cork

## Hispanian (Iberian)Tribunal

Founded: 1018AD

Boundaries: Theoretically, the lands south of the Ebro, as far as the Mediterranean Sea/Atlantic Ocean, plus the Balearic islands. Practically, there are no covenants south of Toledo.

Covenants:

Cities: Valencia, Burgos, Leon, Santiago, Coimbra, Lisbon, Silves, Seville, Granada, Murcia, Palma

## Illyrian (Theban)Tribunal

Founded: 780 AD

Boundaries: Half of the Adiatic coast, from Ragussa southwards. Includes the Balkan Peninsula, with the Sava/Danube being the northern boundary. The Sakaya and Meander rivers on Asia Minor form the eastern limit, all of the low-lying land to the west of these rivers are part of the Illyrian Tribunal. Includes all the islands of the Ionian and Aegean sea, excluding Cyprus.

Covenants:

Cities: Durazzo, Nicopolis, Modon, Mistra, Athens, Thessalonica, Smyrna, Brussa, Nicaea, Constantinople, Adrianople, Sofia, Rhodes, Crete

## Lugdunensian (Normandy)Tribunal

Founded: 773AD

Boundaries: France north of the Loire, incorporating the Low Countries, bounded by the Rhine in the east, the English Channel to the north, the Bay of Biscay to the west.

Covenants: Fudarus (Tytalus)

Cities: Brugge, Ghent, Rouen, Caen, Brest, Vannes, Tours, Anjou, Orleans, Paris, Dijon, Metz, Verdun, Brussels

## Narbonensian (Provençal)Tribunal

Founded: 773AD

Boundaries: Between the Garonne and the Ebro rivers, enclosing all of the Pyrenees, and the Maritime Alps (as far east as the Rhone river). Also includes the island of Corsica, from 1041 onwards

Covenants:

Cities: Toulouse, Agde, Narbonne, Barcelona, Saragossa, Pamploma, Jaca

## Raetian (Greater Alps)Tribunal

Founded: 773AD

Boundaries: The area of the Alps, between the Rhone to the west, the Danube to the north and the Sava to the north-east. Includes the Dinaric Alps on the eastern Adriatic coast as far south as Ragussa. Used to includes the slip of land between the Rhine and the Rhone (now in the Aquitanian Tribunal).

Covenants: Caves of Twisting Shadows (Criamon)

Cities: Nice, Marseilles, Arles, Zurich, Ulm, Augsberg, Graz, Ragussa, Splalato, Zara

## Roman Tribunal

Founded: 773AD

Boundaries: The Italian Peninsula south of the Alps as well as the islands of Sicily and Sardinia There have been occasional disputes among the Roman and Narbonensian tribunals over Corsica and Sardinia, but the Grand Tribunal of 1041 decided the issue finally, Rome getting Sardinia, and Narbonne getting Corsica

Covenants: Vesuvius (Flambeau), Magvillus (Guernicus), Harco (Mercere), Verdi (Verdtius)

Cities: Genoa, Pavia, Milan, Venice, Bologna, Vieste, Brindisi, Syracuse, Palermo, Caligari, Sassari, Naples, Rome, Pisa

## Sarmatica Asiatica (Novgorod) Tribunal

Founded: 780AD

Boundaries: The southern boundaries are the Caucasus Mountains, the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea. The western edges are the Vistula / Prut River, and the North Sea. The eastern boundary is the Volga river

Covenants:

Cities: Tana, Cherson, Kiev, Vladimir, Lublin, Gneizo, Oland, Malmo

## Sarmatica Europea (Bohemian)Tribunal

Founded: 773AD

Boundaries: Everything south and west of the Vistula; and north and east of the Oder and Elbe.

Covenants: Crintera (Bjornaer)

Cities: Danzig, Torun, Posen, Radom, Cracow, Olmutz, Brunn, Prague, Nelsse, Bautzen

## Scotian (Loch Leglean)Tribunal

Founded: 817AD

Boundaries: Scotland, the Western Isles, the Orkneys and the Shetlands. Everything north of Hadrian's Wall was ruled to be in the Scotia Tribunal at the Grand Tribunal of 978. Scotia has occasionally claimed the Isle of Man, but it is currently considered to be within the Hibernia Tribunal.

Covenants:

Cities: Edinburgh, Stirling

## Supragaetulian (Carthagenian)Tribunal

Founded: 1027AD

Boundaries: Everything south of the Mediterranean Sea and West of the Nile

Covenants:

Cities: Tangier, Oran, Algiers, Tunis, Barce, Cairo

## Syrian (Levantine)Tribunal

Founded: 975AD

Boundaries: Cyprus, most of Asia Minor (excepting the western seaboard). Includes the land to the east of the Nile River, and on it's northern edge, includes the Caucasus mountains, but no farther north.

Covenants:

Cities: Amastris, Sinope, Trebizond, Antioch, Damascus, Adre, Jerusalem, Damietta, Alexandria, Famagusta